Ktunaxa Captured

ELEPHANT THAT LED STAMPEDE IS CAPTURED

            Cranbrook, Aug. 13 – The backbone of the elephant revolt is broken.  “Mad Mary,” the African elephant that started the stampedes in Edmonton and Calgary, and first of the panic-stricken pachyderms to take to the bush here, has been captured, and with the capture if this ring-leader the elephant men with the Sells-Floto shows expect that “Charley Ed.” and “Myrtle,” the only other truants, will soon return home.

            Details of the capture of “Mad Mary” are not yet available.  The elephant was sighted by a party of Indians who kept watch and held her in a patch of brush while one rode into town for the circus men, and apparently she was taken without trouble.

SQUAW TAKES HAND

            The capture of some of the other animals was something of an anti-climax.  For days they had been (Continued on page 11)

rampaging through the district, and the ranchers and farmers were terrorized.  A party of Indians who only knew that the animals were loose and that a reward was offered for them, but who did not know that they were considered dangerous, brought in three of them captured by an old squaw.  One of the animals broke loose again after reaching the cars, but the other two were fettered.

LURED BY APPLES

            With a party of Indians, the squaw was trailing the animals through the bush and suddenly came on them. She had a bag of apples on her saddle horn, and offered one to the elephants.  One of them reached out his trunk and took the apple and then crowded close for more.  While the old klootchman fed him, another Indian hobbled his feet with ropes and when the circus men arrived they found the supposedly wild elephants contentedly munching apples and evincing a desire to stay with their new found friends.  The circus men were compelled to pay the squaw $10 to coax the elephants back to the cars.  One of the elephants then bolted again when alarmed by the cheers of spectators.